Prefaces to the Latin Bible
By: Donatien de Bruyne ; introductions by Pierre-Maurice Bogaert & Thomas O'Loughlin
Contributors: Bogaert, Pierre-Maurice, 1934- writer of introduction, writer of added commentary; O'Loughlin, Thomas, writer of introduction, writer of added commentary
Series: Studia traditionis theologiae -- 19; Studia traditionis theologiae -- 19.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: lat
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9782503565071
Subjects: Prefaces; Versions; Vulgate; Introductions; Bible
Work titles: Préfaces de la Bible latine
Description: "Originally conceived as an instrumentum laboris to the great Benedictine project to produce a critical edition of the Vulgate, it now has a new life as a unique collection of the many texts that were presented with, or alongside, the biblical text until the end of the middle Ages. These texts predisposed readers as to what they found in the sacred texts, and how they imagined the collection as a whole. This collection makes available the raw material for a new chapter in the study of the Latin bible and the study of its reception in the later patristic and medieval periods."
Notes: Reprint (with new introductions). Originally published: Namur : A. Godenne, 1920.

De Bruyne prepared this compilation to support the work of the Commission for the Revision of the Vulgate. It contains critical editions of the prefatory texts he encountered in the biblical manuscripts, and gives indications of the manuscript sources for each text. The prefaces themselves are by various authors, most prominently Saint Jerome.

Includes bibliographical references.

Texts of the prefaces in Latin; introductory material and commentary in English.
Table of contents: title: Towards a Typology of Prologues in the Latin Bibles / Pierre-Maurice Bogaert OSB; title: The Préfaces de la Bible Latine after a Century / Thomas O'Loughlin; title: The Content of De Bruyne's Préfaces de la Bible Latine and Its Use; title: Pentateuchus; title: Libri Iosue, Iudicum, Ruth; title: Libri Regum; title: Libri Paralipomenon; title: Esdras; title: Libri Tobias, Iudith, Esther; title: Iob; title: Psalmi; title: Libri sapientales; title: Prophetae Maiores; title: Prophetae Minores; title: Libri Machabaeorum; title: Euangeli; title: Actus; title: Epistulae Pauli; title: Epistulae catholicae; title: Apocalypsis; title: Ordines legendi.